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Backend wars, Mac math, and the back-catalog refresh
May 26, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly issue 10 -- May 25, 2026 The Qwen 3.6 ecosystem stopped being new this week and started being mapped. Three backends benched head to head...
Power week in local AI: Mythos, MiroThinker, real Qwen 3.6 builds
May 18, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly issue 9 -- May 18, 2026 Three threads converged this week and they tell the same story: local AI moved from "interesting" to "serious" on...
Gemma 4 Just Made My 3090 Three Times Faster
May 11, 2026
I ran Gemma 4 on my own RTX 3090 today. Three times faster than Qwen 3.6 on the same hardware, same build. The numbers below, plus the flag combination that...
This Week in Local AI — I Built DFlash and Audited Lightning
May 4, 2026
Read this on the web: https://insiderllm.com/blog/newsletter-2026-05-03/ InsiderLLM Weekly issue 7 -- May 3, 2026 Spent three days building DFlash from...
This Week in Local AI — DeepSeek V4 Took #1 on Vibe Code
April 26, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly issue 6 -- April 26, 2026 Two open-weight model families dropped in eight days, one of them is now #1 on Vibe Code Benchmark ahead of Kimi...
Your RTX 3090 Doesn't Send Policy Change Emails
April 5, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly issue: 5 -- April 5, 2026 This Week in Local AI Anthropic just proved why owning your inference stack matters. And Google shipped a model...
Your SSD Is the New GPU
March 22, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly issue: 4 — March 22, 2026 This Week in Local AI The biggest local AI story this week isn't a new model. It's a new way to run the ones we...
Your LLM is a People Pleaser...
March 15, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly — March 15, 2026 This Week in Local AI Researchers found the neurons that make your LLM lie. There are almost none of them, and they're not...
This Week in Local AI — llama.cpp Gets MCP, Qwen3-Coder-Next Hits #1
March 8, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly — March 8, 2026 This Week in Local AI The tools are moving faster than the models this week. llama.cpp had its biggest feature merge in...
InsiderLLM Weekly — Feb 28, 2026
February 28, 2026
InsiderLLM Weekly — Feb 28, 2026 This Week in Local AI Welcome to the first InsiderLLM Weekly. No fluff. No hype cycles. Just what happened in local AI this...